1970 in France

Incumbents

• President: Georges Pompidou
• Prime Minister: Jacques Chaban-Delmas

  Events

• 10 February – An avalanche at Val d'Isère kills 39 tourists.
• 8 March – Cantonales Elections held.
• 15 March – Cantonales Elections held.
• 25 March – Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.
• 11 April – 74 people, mostly young boys, die as an avalanche buries a tuberculosis sanatorium in the French Alps.
• 6 October – President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union.
• 11 October – Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad.
• 1 November – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, Isère, kills 146.
• Undated – Citroen launches two new models: the GS family saloon and estate, and the SM sporting coupe. The Citroen GS is voted European Car of the Year.

  Sport

• 27 June – Tour de France begins.
• 19 July – Tour de France ends, won by Eddy Merckx of Belgium.

  Births

January to March

• 10 January – Christine Malèvre, serial killer.
• 28 January – Laurent Levesque, film score composer.
• 29 January – Olivier Edmond, golfer.
• 3 February – Franck Gava, soccer player.
• 6 February – Patrice Loko, soccer player.
• 14 February – Guillaume Raoux, tennis player.
• 17 February – Philippe Bernat-Salles, international rugby union player.
• 4 March – Amélie Sarn, author, comic book writer and translator.
• 7 March – Nathalie Lancien, cyclist and Olympic gold medallist.
• 12 March – Marine Delterme, actress, painter, sculptor and former model.
• 13 March – Stéphane Goubert, cyclist.
• 21 March – Franck David, sailor and Olympic gold medallist.
• 27 March – Gedeon Naudet, filmmaker.
• 28 March – Benjamin Castaldi, television personality

  April to June

• 10 April – Christophe Honoré, writer and film director.
• 14 April – Richard Sainct, Rally Raid Motorcycle rider.
• 15 April – Luc Marquet, volleyball player.
• 24 April – Jean-Philippe Belloc, motor racing driver.
• 3 May – Alexia Dechaume-Balleret, tennis player.
• 5 May – Laurent Crost, judoka.
• 13 May – Wilfrid Boulineau, decathlete.
• 21 May – Pierre Billaud, radio reporter and journalist, killed in Afghanistan.
• 22 May – Guillaume Warmuz, soccer player.
• 15 June – Gaëlle Méchaly, soprano.
• 18 June – Ludovic Pollet, soccer player.
• 27 June – Régine Cavagnoud, alpine skier.
• 27 June – Christophe Deguerville, soccer player.

  July to September

• 9 July – Benoit Pierre Emery, fashion designer.
• 18 August – Cédric Vasseur, cyclist.
• 20 August – Loïc De Kergret, volleyball player.
• 28 August – Loïc Leferme, free diver.
• 3 September – Franck Chambilly, judoka.
• 6 September – Stéphane Guivarc'h, international soccer player.
• 9 September – Pierre Laigle, soccer player.
• 10 September – Julie Halard-Decugis, tennis player.
• 18 September – Didier Rous, cyclist.
• 22 September – Emmanuel Petit, soccer player.

  October to December

• 23 October – Stéphane Nomis, judoka.
• 27 October – Alain Boghossian, soccer player.
• 5 November – Laurent D'Jaffo, soccer player.
• 11 November – Gilles Grimandi, soccer player.
• 15 November – Franck Rabarivony, soccer player.
• 25 November – Bruno Girard, boxer.
• 13 December – Pierre Laurent, soccer player.
• 15 December – Corinne Favre, ski mountaineer and mountain runner.
• 30 December – Frédéric Tatarian, soccer player.

  Full date unknown

• Julien Lourau, jazz saxophonist.
• Vincent Paronnaud, comics artist and filmmaker.

  Deaths

January to March

• 4 January – Jean-Étienne Valluy, general.
• 20 January – François Tanguy-Prigent, politician and resistance fighter.
• 25 January – Jane Bathori, opera singer.
• 29 January – Marie-Laure de Noailles, patron of the arts.
• 1 February – Eugène Christophe, cyclist.
• 20 February – Gaston Modot, actor.
• 17 March – Jérôme Carcopino, historian and author.
• 22 March – Georges Malkine, painter.

  April to June

• 10 April – Henri Marchal, archaeologist.
• 22 May – Georges Limbour, writer.
• 23 May – René Capitant, lawyer and politician.
• 2 June – Albert Lamorisse, filmmaker, producer and writer.
• 6 June – Camille Bombois, naïve painter.
• 15 June – Henri Queuille, Radical-Socialist politician and Prime Minister of France.
• 16 June – Elsa Triolet, writer.
• 27 June – Pierre Mac Orlan, novelist and songwriter.

  July to September

• 10 July – Félix Gaillard, Radical politician and Prime Minister of France.
• 11 July – André Lurçat, architect.
• 19 July – Henri Lauvaux, athlete and Olympic medallist.
• 30 July – Jean d'Eaubonne, art director.
• 5 August – Lucien Lamoureux, politician and Minister.
• 25 August – Marcel Allain, writer.
• 1 September – François Mauriac, author, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 2 September – Marie Pierre Kœnig, general and politician.
• 5 September – André Simon, wine merchant, gourmet and writer.
• 23 September – Bourvil, actor and singer.

  October to December

• 8 October – Jean Giono, author.
• 9 October – Edmond Michelet, politician.
• 10 October – Édouard Daladier, Radical-Socialist politician and Prime Minister of France.
• 18 October – Jean De Briac, actor.
• 2 November – Pierre Veyron, motor racing driver.
• 6 November – Henri Jeanson, writer and journalist.
• 9 November – Charles de Gaulle, general, statesman, President.
• 1 December – Hermine David, painter.
• 7 December – Émile Girardeau, engineer.
• 16 December – Laurent Eynac, politician and Minister.
• 18 December – Marc Boegner, theologist, pastor, French Resistance member and essayist.

  Full date unknown

• Lucienne Abraham, Trotskyist politician.
• Maurice Lafforgue, alpine skier.